Changing our standard, usual, typical, and expected behavior every once and a while can be refreshing.   That is stepping out of the normal into the new and exciting.

When are behavior change becomes a long term or permanent change, more like the new normal it can be stressful at first.  Changing it up for short periods is exciting and can spice up our lives but forced change for the long term becomes a bit wearing.

The good news is, eventually, the new normal becomes normal, at least until the next shake-up.  However, it does take time to adapt, accept, and transition our behaviors so they become autonomic.

Focus on Better

I visited my dentist a couple of weeks ago for a check-up.  After the exam, we chit-chatted a bit about the covid worldwide pandemic and the impacts on his business.

Unexpectedly he actually positioned the additional anti-disease measures as overdue and his plan is to permanently adopt many of the practices.

Masks, outerwear, frequent cleaning (even more frequent than before) are best practices.  Although they were specifically mandated in many cases to protect against covid, it is of note the transmission of illness is not limited to covid.

These processes make sense in any case.

Embrace/ Enjoy

Resistance to the increased government-mandated health safety measures does not make sense to me.   This is a case where preventing transmission of a potentially deadly disease is common sense.

Ultimately we may develop vaccines for covid or even a cure but the next one is just down the road (perhaps months, years, decades, we just cannot be sure).

The lessons of this pandemic should not be discarded.  Let’s make the new normal actually normal.